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Allan A. ("Tony") Ekdale
Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Contact: Office: 601 WBB
Phone: (801) 581-7266
Email: a.ekdale@utah.edu
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FIELD OF STUDY
Invertebrate Paleoecology and Ichnology
BACKGROUND
- B.A., 1968, Augustana College, Rock island, IL
- M.A., 1973, Rice University, Houston, TX
- Ph.D., 1974, Rice University, Houston, TX
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
Paleontology and paleoecology of marine invertebrates; animal-sediment interrelationships in continental, intertidal, shallow-marine and deep-sea environments; sedimentologic, stratigraphic, ethologic and environmental implications of trace fossils and ichnofabrics.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ekdale, A.A., & Tripp, A.S., 2005, Paleontological sonification: letting music bring fossils to your ears: Jour. of Geoscience Education, 53:271-280.
Benner, J. S., Ekdale, A. A., Gibert, J. M. de, 2004, Macroborings (Gastrochaenolites) in Lower Ordovician hardgrounds of Utah: sedimentologic, paleoecologic, and evolutionary implications: Palaios, 19:543-550.
Ekdale, A. A., & Bromley, R. G., 2003, Paleoethologic interpretation of complex Thalassinoides in shallow-marine limestones, Lower Ordovician, southern Sweden: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 192:221-227.
Ekdale, A. A., & Lamond, R. E., 2003, Behavioral cladistics of trace fossils: evolution of derived trace-making skills: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 192:335-343.
Gibert, J M. de, & Ekdale, A. A, 2002, Ichnology of a restricted epicontinental sea, Arapien Shale, Middle Jurassic, Utah, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 183:275-286.
Difley, R. L., & Ekdale, A. A, 2002a, Faunal implications of an environmental change before the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) transition in central Utah: Cretaceous Research, 23:315-331.
Difley, R. L., & Ekdale, A. A., 2002b, Footprints of Utah's last dinosaurs: track beds in the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation of the Wasatch Plateau, central Utah: Palaios, 17:327-346.
Ekdale, A.A., & Bromley, R.G., 2001a, A day and a night in the life of a cleft-foot clam: Protovirgularia-Lockeia-Lophoctenium: Lethaia, 34:119-124.
Ekdale, A.A., & Bromley, R.G., 2001b, Bioerosional innovation for living in carbonate hardgrounds in the Early Ordovician of Sweden: Lethaia, 34:1-12.
Martinell, J., Gibert, J.M. de, Domenech, R., Ekdale, A.A., & Steen, P.P., 2001, Cretaceous ray traces?: An alternative interpretation for the alleged dinosaur tracks of La Posa, Isona, NE Spain: Palaios, 16:437-444.
